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Show us your shops!

Nice, it will be like a new shop! Lots of heat and more space. What size is your shop? 60000 btu should be good for a decent size. I think the furnace guys under estimate the required btu's for shops. I think they forget about a big door often opening up and losing a significant amount of heat, lots of big chunks of iron that takes alot of heat to warm up and the fact that most shops do not maintain a steady temperature 24hrs. At least in my opinion 😛
 
Umm... I'm just trying to find the words... oh, there they are: HOLY SHIT?! $4400?!

I'm not ready to expose the rest of my disaster-area-in-progress (had to jam a bunch of stuff in when the weather turned and I'm tearing out a wall), but I'll show you this much. After 25 years of not having any heat in my garage, I finally quit screwing around last winter and did something about it. Bought a 30K BTU/hr radiant on kijiji for $500 from a guy up around Red Deer. Cost a hundred to get it trucked here, and another few hundred for hanging hardware, the iron pipe and fittings for extending the gas line from the (attached) house, and proper inlet/outlet vent - and I'm pretty sure the total didn't break a grand. Just turned it up a couple of weeks ago and it's running nicely, though it didn't take long for me to figure out that a lot of the heat is rising - and staying risen - so I'm going to add a ceiling fan to stir it down. I'd never considered a forced air (either floor or hung) because of both the noise and the real estate (in the case of a floor unit).

Forgive the terrible photo - I couldn't back up further 'cause there's a car in the way. It's tilted at 45 degrees with the required clearances, so it's not actually pointing straight down at the various possibly-flammable stuffs on the shelf below - they're a little behind it.


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someidiot said:
Umm... I'm just trying to find the words... oh, there they are: HOLY SHIT?! $4400?!

I'm not ready to expose the rest of my disaster-area-in-progress (had to jam a bunch of stuff in when the weather turned and I'm tearing out a wall), but I'll show you this much. After 25 years of not having any heat in my garage, I finally quit screwing around last winter and did something about it. Bought a 30K BTU/hr radiant on kijiji for $500 from a guy up around Red Deer. Cost a hundred to get it trucked here, and another few hundred for hanging hardware, the iron pipe and fittings for extending the gas line from the (attached) house, and proper inlet/outlet vent - and I'm pretty sure the total didn't break a grand. Just turned it up a couple of weeks ago and it's running nicely, though it didn't take long for me to figure out that a lot of the heat is rising - and staying risen - so I'm going to add a ceiling fan to stir it down. I'd never considered a forced air (either floor or hung) because of both the noise and the real estate (in the case of a floor unit).

Forgive the terrible photo - I couldn't back up further 'cause there's a car in the way. It's tilted at 45 degrees with the required clearances, so it's not actually pointing straight down at the various possibly-flammable stuffs on the shelf below - they're a little behind it.


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Beautiful ceiling for a shop.
 
The garage is same log construction as house - note the wall behind. As with the house, though, vaulted ceiling and no trusses, so lacking the usual "attic storage" - which would actually be very handy for boat spars and long, rolled-up sails.
 
Fly_Cut said:
Here's my garage.
Sl10 Haas lathe with bar feeder.
Nice little "hobby".😉
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You suck.

The parents of the engineers who designed that beautiful Haas lathe weren't born when my newest lathe first went on sale. But I don't think I'd trade, looks too shiny to fit in my shop aesthetic.
 
For those who want to know: "AISI 8620 is a low-alloy nickel, chromium, and molybdenum case-hardening steel. It’s commonly used in parts that need both toughness and wear resistance, such as camshafts, fasteners, gears, and chains/chain pins." -McMaster
 
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